Appeal No. 2001-2578
Application No. 08/977,547
establishing agreement is for negotiating device protocol options
at the application layer connection (answer, page 5). The
Examiner further relies on the TCP/IP protocol of Klotzbach and
concludes that it would have been obvious to establish an
agreement at the application layer since Klotzbach teaches that,
in order to understand the transmitted messages, the two
communicating parties should be connected using the right
protocol (answer, pages 5 and 6).
With respect to claims 1-5, 8, 10-13, Appellants argue
(brief, page 12 & 13) that Smith does not generate the printer
data stream at the server and require conversion software in the
BFD stores (col. 12, lines 16-26; col. 13, lines 17-29) in order
to support different printers (col. 10, lines 52-54). Appellants
contrast the document delivery of Smith with the claimed
invention in which existing Internet protocols are used to
connect the printer directly to the server without the need for
generation of the printer data stream at the client side (id.).
The Examiner responds by referring to Column 13, line 21 of Smith
where the document received by the recipient is taught to be
sent/generated from the BFD server (answer, page 17).
We find that Smith describes the function of “Portable
Document Receive Client” (PDRC) which may be downloaded and is
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